In 1981, a split-season format forced the first ever divisional playoff series, in which the New York Yankees won the Eastern Division series over the Milwaukee Brewers ( who were in the American League until 1998 ) in five games while the Oakland Athletics swept the Kansas City Royals in three games in the Western Division.

Previously, because of a players ' strike in 1981, a split-season format forced a divisional playoff series, in which the Montreal Expos won the Eastern Division series over the Philadelphia Phillies three games to two while the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Houston Astros three games to two in the Western Division.

The two companies underwent a name change to Sambi Co., Ltd. in September 1981, while Capcom Co., Ltd. itself was first established on June 11, 1983, for the purpose of taking over the internal sales department.

It charted on February 14th, 1981 and reached number 28 while " Crying " climbed to number 5 on the pop singles chart.

In 2012, the sales of Unicharm adult diapers had slightly surpassed those for babies, although Unicharm started selling diapers for adults in 1987, while for babies since 1981.

In 1981, at age 21 and while still an undergraduate, Lin won a public design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, beating out 1, 441 other competition submissions.

* 1981 – Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera, his wife, and his presidential committee died in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha.

In the early 20th century, people like Ordway Tead ( 1891 – 1973 ), Walter Scott and J. Mooney applied the principles of psychology to management, while other writers, such as Elton Mayo ( 1880 – 1949 ), Mary Parker Follett ( 1868 – 1933 ), Chester Barnard ( 1886 – 1961 ), Max Weber ( 1864 – 1920 ), Rensis Likert ( 1903 – 1981 ), and Chris Argyris ( 1923-) approached the phenomenon of management from a sociological perspective.

Her white, hand-beaded, one shoulder Galanos 1981 inaugural gown was estimated to cost $ 10, 000 while the overall price of her inaugural wardrobe was said to cost $ 25, 000.

John C. Gonsiorek criticized their study on several grounds in 1981, pointing out that while Masters and Johnson stated that their patients were screened for major psychopathology or severe neurosis, they did not explain how this screening was performed, or how the motivation of the patients to change was assessed.

Personal income tax revenues declined from 9. 4 % GDP in 1981 to 8. 3 % GDP in 1989, while payroll tax revenues increased from 6. 0 % GDP to 6. 7 % GDP during the same period.

On March 19, 1981, during preparations for a ground test, workers were asphyxiated while working in Columbia's nitrogen-purged aft engine compartment, resulting in ( variously reported ) two or three fatalities.

In " The Empty Child " ( 2005 ), the Doctor stated that the telephone is not connected to a telephone line, and in Logopolis ( 1981 ), the Master materialised his TARDIS around a normal police box while a police officer was using the telephone, causing the line to go dead.

Alien influences have also, for example, trapped the Doctor's TARDIS and drained its power in " The Web Planet " ( 1965 ) and " Death to the Daleks " ( 1974 ), while its course has been diverted by " The Keeper of Traken " ( 1981 ), the " Mandragora Helix " ( 1976 ) and by the Daleks ' " time corridor " in " Resurrection of the Daleks " ( 1984 ).

Teresa Carpenter's " Death of a Playmate " article about Dorothy Stratten's murder was published in The Village Voice and won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize, and while Bogdanovich did not criticize Carpenter's article in his book, she had lambasted both Bogdanovich and Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner, claiming that Stratten was a victim of them as much as of her husband, Paul Snider, who killed her and himself.

Dream scenes may be indistinguishable from those set in the dreamer's real world, a narrative device that undermines the dreamer's and the audience's sense of security and allows horror film protagonists, such as those of Carrie ( 1976 ), Friday the 13th ( 1980 ) or An American Werewolf in London ( 1981 ) to be suddenly attacked by dark forces while resting in seemingly safe places.

Thus, Afghanistan's foreign minister commented that Afghanistan was a democratic but not yet socialist republic, while a member of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan's Politburo predicted that " Afghanistan will not see socialism in my lifetime " in an interview with a British journalist in 1981.

The Oakland Raiders of the NFL won Super Bowl XI in 1977, Super Bowl XV in 1981, and after the 1983 season ( their second season since the temporary LA move ), they defeated the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl XVIII to capture a third championship, while also appearing in Super Bowl II in 1968 and Super Bowl XXXVII in 2003.

In 1981, while at Juilliard, Kilmer co-authored and starred in the play How It All Began, which was performed at the Public Theatre at the New York Shakespeare Festival.

( Another 1981 interview, posted on YouTube, shows Niven on The Merv Griffin Show while publicizing his novel Go Slowly, Come Back Quickly.

By December 1981, when the PNDC came to power, the inflation rate topped 200 percent, while real GDP had declined by 3 percent per annum for seven years.

Jim Foster, a promotions manager with the National Football League, conceived the idea of indoor football while watching an indoor Association Football match at Madison Square Garden in 1981.

On September 26, 1981, Ryan threw his fifth no-hitter, breaking Koufax's mark while becoming the third pitcher to throw a no-hitter in each league.

Most sources list that event as occurring in 1981, while others list the year as 1982.

In 1981 – 82 the Islanders won a then-record 15 straight games en route to a franchise-record 118 points, while Mike Bossy set a scoring record for right wingers with 147 points in an 80 game schedule.

In 1981, Marceau made her singing debut with French singer François Valéry on record " Dream in Blue ", written by Delanoë.

He is best known to modern audiences for his starring role in the CBS television series Dallas from 1981 to 1991, as Clayton Farlow, opposite Barbara Bel Geddes's character, but to an earlier generation, he was known as the star of some of the most famous MGM film musicals ever made, with a rich bass-baritone singing voice.

Collaborating with producer Narada Michael Walden in 1981, they released the album " All-American Girls ," yielding the title track single, which reached No. 3 R & B and No. 79 Pop in the U. S. and No. 41 Pop in the UK ; and the single " Next Time You'll Know ," which reached No. 28 R & B in the U. S. The sisters continued singing new material throughout the 1980s and 1990s, although not matching the success of the late 1970s.

She landed a role in Dreamgirls, the film adaptation of the 1981 hit Broadway musical about a 1960s singing group loosely based on Motown all-female group The Supremes.

Ironically, she starred in the film adaptation of the 1981 Broadway musical Dreamgirls as Deena Jones, the front woman of the Dreams, a female singing group based on the Supremes.

But eventually in 1981 she started singing for a band called Still Life, which was to become 10, 000 Maniacs.

The piece has been recorded three times: in 1969 with Halina Łukomska singing the solo part and the BBC Symphony Orchestra accompanying ; in 1981 with the same orchestra but Phyllis Bryn-Julson taking the solo part ; and in 2000 with Christine Schäfer accompanied by the Ensemble InterContemporain.

In 1981 they released their LP Music From Hell, which included guest vocalist Alice Bag from The Bags singing on " Alice's Song ".

In 1981, Bumpus issued his first solo LP, A Clear View, which featured his singing, writing and sax playing, stretching out with the band on several, long, jazzy jams over 6 minutes each.

She continued to appear often at the Met during the 1980s, singing in such roles as Tosca ( 1980, 1985 ) and Elizabeth of Valois ( 1985 ) and in special concerts in 1981 and 1983.

Kenneth Gorlay recounts that, " Writing of her own Igbo music, the Nigerian musicologist Chinyere Nwachukwu maintains that the ' concept of music nkwa combines singing, playing musical instruments, and dancing into one act ' ( 1981: 59 ).

( She returned to the White House in 1981, singing at the Ronald Reagan inauguration.

The Sports broke up in 1981 with lead singer Stephen Cummings going on a successful solo singing career.

In History of the World Part I, a 1981 film written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks, Princess Nympho ( Madeline Kahn ) selects slaves for her entertainment by singing a song based on the final melody of Dance of the Hours.

In 1981, she provided the singing voice for the character Frankie in Ralph Bakshi's animated movie American Pop.

* A reference to "... on the radio ," which resembles the timbre of the voice singing the verses in The Buggles ' " Video Killed the Radio Star ," the first video ever played on MTV when it debuted in 1981 ( Bowling for Soup version only ).

He later represented Luxembourg again in the 1981 contest and finished 11th of 20 singing " C ' est peut-être pas l ' Amérique " ( It may not be America ) with words and music he composed along with Sophie Makhno and Jean-Claude Petit.

Known for his impersonations of Valery Giscard d ' Estaing when he was president ( 1974-1981 ), Thierry Le Luron Live parody Gilbert Bécaud, when issuing the Champs Elysees of 10 November 1984, singing and blackmailing the public's annoying, it's the rose-the rose being the symbol of the Socialist Party, in power since 1981, he dedicated this song to President Francois Mitterrand 5.

Paul was the second vocalist with Exodus replacing Keith Stewart in 1981 and singing on their 1982 Demo and their first official album Bonded by Blood in 1985.

The opening lines of " Atlantic City " refer to mafia violence in nearby Philadelphia, with Springsteen singing: " Well they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night, now they blew up his house too " ( the " chicken man " was mafia boss Philip Testa, who was killed by a bomb planted at his Philadelphia house in March 1981 ).

Hanna Helena Pakarinen ( born April 17, 1981 in Lappeenranta, Finland ) is a Finnish pop and pop-rock singer who rose to fame as the winner of the first series of the Finnish singing competition Idols in 2004.

For the National Anthem, the Padres played a video of Ed singing " The Star-Spangled Banner " at Fenway Park on Opening Day in 1981 when Trevor's brother, Glenn, was the starting shortstop for the Red Sox.

She began her performing career at the age of three in 1981 singing at church.

The 1970s saw singing supporter sections emerging with led to a new supporter club to be founded in 1981, named Blue Saints.